# Primesense

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/primesense/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

PrimeSense was an Israeli fabless semiconductor and 3D-sensing company, best known for co-developing the depth-sensing technology behind Microsoft's Kinect and for sponsoring the open-source OpenNI (Open Natural Interaction) framework and its NiTE middleware for skeleton tracking and gesture recognition. The company shipped the PrimeSensor reference design and PS1080 system-on-chip for structured-light depth cameras. Apple acquired PrimeSense in November 2013 for roughly $360M; the OpenNI project and openni.org were subsequently wound down (openni.org now redirects to apple.com) and the company's developer program, website, and API/docs hosts are no longer online. Only legacy Apache-2.0 source repositories (the OpenNI sensor driver and NiTE controls) remain public on GitHub. There is no live web/REST API surface for PrimeSense.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, 3D Sensing, Depth Camera, Computer-Vision, Middleware, Semiconductors, Acquired, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/primesense/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.